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24th Australian Institute of Physics Congress

11–16 Dec 2022
Australia/Adelaide timezone
Co-locating with the 7th International Workshop of Specialty Optical Fibres and Their Applications (WSOF), the Australian and New Zealand Conference on Optics and Photonics (ANZCOP), and the Conference on Optoelectronlc and Microelectronic Materials and Devices (COMMAD)

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Scalable and Effective use of Immersive Virtual Reality for Physics Education

15 Dec 2022, 17:30
1h 30m
Exhibition Halls F & G (Adelaide Convention Centre)

Exhibition Halls F & G

Adelaide Convention Centre
Poster AIP: Education Poster session

Speaker

John Debs (Research School of Physics, The Australian National University)

Description

We have developed software and present significant evidence for how virtual reality can be used to correct common misconceptions of introductory physics students when learning Newtonian mechanics. Compared with standard instruction, students using VR improve their FCI scores by 13%.

Author

John Debs (Research School of Physics, The Australian National University)

Presentation materials

AIP_VR_Abstract.pdf
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